Tech Now: Stay safer while drinking with apps, gadgets

2:12 AM,
Jan. 1, 2014

Written by

Jennifer Jolly
for USA TODAY

How awkward would it be if your smartphone blabbed to everyone on Facebook and Twitter when you'd had one too many drinks at a holiday party? While there's no amount of technology that can truly save us from ourselves when it comes to partying a little too hard, there are a whole host of new apps and high-tech gadgets that can - at least in theory - warn you if you're too tipsy to drive home. And yes, some of those tools can actually shoot blood alcohol level shout-outs to your gang on social media.THE BUZZ ON BREATHALYZERS